Each summer brings to LIL a new cohort of Summer Fellows to inspire and challenge us with their visions of what libraries make possible.
Read more of "Announcing the 2018 Cohort of LIL Summer Fellows"LIL Takes Toronto: the Creative Commons Summit 2018
The Creative Commons Conference in Toronto was wonderful this past weekend! It was a pleasure to meet the mix of artists, educators, civil servants, policymakers, journalists, and copyright agents (and more) who were there.
Read more of "LIL Takes Toronto: the Creative Commons Summit 2018"Overheard in LIL - Episode 2
This week:
A chat bot that can sue anyone and everything!
Devices listening to our every move
And an interview with Jack Cushman, a developer in LIL, about built-in compassion (and cruelty) in law, why lawyers should learn to program, weird internet, and lovely podcast gimmicks (specifically that of Rachel and Griffin McElroy’s Wonderful! podcast)
Read more of "Overheard in LIL - Episode 2"LITA, Day One
We’re off to a great start here in Denver at the LITA 2017 Forum.
Read more of "LITA, Day One"Overheard in LIL (the podcast!)
Our first podcast, about what our podcast should be about, is out! Starring Adam Ziegler, Anastasia Aizman, Andy Silva, and Brett Johnson.
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This is a guest blog post by our summer fellow Miglena Minkova.
Last week at LIL, I had the pleasure of running a pilot of git physical, the first part of a series of workshops aimed at introducing git to artists and designers through creative challenges. In this workshop I focused on covering the basics: three-tree architecture, simple git workflow, and commands (add, commit, push). These lessons were fairly standard but contained a twist: The whole thing was completely analogue!
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AALL 2017: The Caselaw Access Project + Perma.cc Hit Austin
Members of the LIL team including Adam, Anastasia, Brett and Caitlin visited Texas this past weekend to participate in the American Association of Law Libraries Conference in Austin. Tacos were eaten, talks were given (and attended) and friends were made over additional tacos.
Read more of "AALL 2017: The Caselaw Access Project + Perma.cc Hit Austin"A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
In 2005, British student Alex Tew had a million-dollar idea. He launched www.MillionDollarHomepage.com, a website that presented initial visitors with nothing but a 1000×1000 canvas of blank pixels. At the cost of $1/pixel, visitors could permanently claim 10×10 blocks of pixels and populate them however they’d like. Pixel blocks could also be embedded with URLs and tooltip text of the buyer’s choosing.
Read more of "A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact"LIL Talks: Comedy
This is a guest post by our LIL interns — written by Zach Tan with help from Anna Bialas and Doyung Lee
This week, LIL’s resident comic (and staff member) Brett Johnson taught a room full of LIL staff, interns, and fellows the finer intricacies of stand up comedy, which included the construction of a set, joke writing, and the challenges and high points of the craft.
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